Fintech apps and startups

Fintech is the deepest software sector in African tech, and the reason is structural: mobile money arrived before widespread bank accounts, so an entire generation of builders grew up designing for wallets, agents and USSD rather than cards and branches. That inheritance shows in the products on this page. You will find payment infrastructure and collection APIs, cross-border and remittance tools built around the fact that moving money between two African countries is often harder than moving it to Europe, savings and lending products for people with no formal credit file, business banking and bookkeeping for traders, and the compliance layers that make any of it legal to operate. Some are aimed at consumers, many are aimed at other builders who need a payment rail that actually settles locally. Each one is published by a verified founder, so you can judge the team as well as the product. Upvote the ones worth backing, and use the list to find infrastructure you can build on rather than rebuild.